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Jamshid Sharmahd
جمشید شارمهد
1955–2024 · 2 years ago
- Born
- 1955
- Taken
- 28 October 2024 (Sources differ)
- From
- Undisclosed location
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Jamshid Sharmahd was born in Tehran in 1955 and lived there until he was seven. He grew up and studied in Germany, set up his own software company and created UniPad, a Unicode text editor. In 2003 he moved to the United States. He was a German citizen, a US permanent resident and the father of two.
He was a member of the Kingdom Assembly of Iran, a monarchist group, and kept its website running, opening it to supporters to share their views even as anonymous callers threatened him. From 2008 to 2018 he hosted Radio Tondar, sharing news about Iran and giving a voice to people inside the country, and he and his family faced threats and cyberattacks for it.
How the regime took them
On 31 July 2020, on a layover in Dubai while flying from India to the United States, he was abducted and taken to Iran; on 1 August the intelligence minister showed him blindfolded on state television. He was kept mostly in solitary confinement, his lawyer was denied access to him, to the case file and to the trial, and he was denied proper care for diabetes, heart disease and Parkinson's disease. In February 2023 he was sentenced to death for 'corruption on earth' over a 2008 bombing at a mosque in Shiraz, without a fair trial.
On 28 October 2024 the judiciary announced he had been hanged; on 5 November it said he had died before the sentence could be carried out. The Boroumand Center called on the regime to return his body to his family.
